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OKLAHOMA CITY — Lindsay Allen normally focuses on setting others up. On Friday, the sophomore point guard turned into a scorer, dropping in a career-high 28 points to help top-seeded Notre Dame defeat Stanford 81-60 in the NCAA women's Sweet 16. Allen entered the night averaging just under 10 points per game, but she matched her career high with 24 points in the first half alone. "Our posts did a really good job of setting screens, and we were just reading the defense really well and getting open shots for our offense," Allen said. Jewell Loyd scored 17 of her 21 points in the second half for the Fighting Irish (34-2), who advanced to play Baylor (33-3) on Sunday...

INDIANAPOLIS — At NCAA headquarters, the basketball enthusiasts view Selection Sunday as Christmas morning.
This mock selection exercise would be akin to Thanksgiving.
"So let's eat," says David Worlock, the NCAA point man for this event.
And...

Notre Dame is the latest university to have a coach with a fancy title.
Thanks to two former Irish athletes, Muffet McGraw now is known as the Karen and Kevin Keyes Family Head Women’s Basketball Coach.
Karen Robinson Keyes, who played point guard for...

Myke Henry isn't greeted with a nod or a smile or even a handshake at DePaul.Bear hugs — enveloping, so-happy-to-see-you, arms wrapped around his wide shoulders like tight tentacles — are how Henry feels hellos now."It's a lot of attention,"...

Ending weeks of speculation, Michigan hired Jim Harbaugh as its coach Tuesday in hopes that its former star quarterback will lead the Wolverines back to national prominence.
Interim athletic director Jim Hackett said Harbaugh agreed to a seven-year...

The postseason is one "Kokomo Bowl" from becoming the next verse in a Beach Boys song: "Miami, Bahamas, come on pretty mamma, Camellia, and Boca, this is not a joke-a." Four new bowl games plus the extra championship game means the...

Most Notre Dame fans, even if they projected optimism in this year's team, probably did not think the Irish would be undefeated through their first five games.
But here the Irish are: 5-0 and No. 6 in the Associated Press poll, No. 5 in the coaches' poll...

ROSEMONT, Ill. -- DePaul players showed they're very quick learners on Sunday.
After reviewing video of lackluster performances in last Wednesday's 86-74 loss to Lehigh, the Blue Demons converted lessons from that game into an 87-72 nonconference victory...

This year may have been Johnny Crain's last at North Central College, but he certainly left on a high note.
The recent graduate finished his Cardinal running career with an individual national championship in the 10,000 meters, ending one of the most...

Wisconsin's second-half collapse Saturday raised two key questions: Why didn't Melvin Gordon get more than four carries in the second half? And why didn't quarterback Joel Stave relieve an overwhelmed Tanner McEvoy?
It took some time, but the answers are...

An injury may spoil Denny Falls’ homecoming.
The Stanford senior from Orland Park made the trip to Chicago for the six-team NCAA Championship at Loyola’s Gentile Arena, where the No. 3 seed Cardinal meet No. 6 Erskine Tuesday night in the first of two...

Florida State and Alabama remained in the top two spots in the Associated Press Top 25 poll released Tuesday.
Defending national champion Florida State beat Oklahoma State in the Cowboys Classic at AT&T Stadium despite some uneasy moments in the...

A stifling defense in the second half allowed the Northwestern women’s lacrosse team to take control of a close game and go on to a 12-8 victory over Stanford Sunday in Evanston.
The fourth-ranked Wildcats (13-1) had let the No. 15 Cardinal (8-4) back in...

There are few turnarounds in sports as stunning as what the Northwestern women's lacrosse team pulled off Sunday.
Two weeks after Florida had dealt the Wildcats a 22-4 defeat, the worst loss in Kelly Amonte Hiller's 12 seasons as head coach, NU...

The first time the Stanford women's lacrosse team made the NCAA tournament, in 2006, its reward was a first-round game against defending national champion Northwestern in Evanston - and an eight-goal loss.
The first time Stanford won a...

It seemed like a nice post-Christmas present for college sports fans. On Dec. 28, the Big Ten and Pac-12 announced a scheduling collaboration that called for a full slate of football games beginning in 2017.
So much for that.
Conference commissioners...